Latvian and Canadian troops are conducting a large-scale exercise with ground drones for the first time, taking remote warfare out of the skies and applying it directly to the battlefield.
They’re taking lessons from ex-Ukrainian soldiers and tech companies in a stunning reversal of training roles, and scrambling to adapt the new technology just as the Baltic country is plunged into a political crisis over a mistaken aerial drone strike on an oil storage facility.
“For me, it’s no doubt that drones are coming into the game,” said Latvian Lt.-Col. Andris Bruveris, commander of the Second Mechanized Infantry Battalion, known as the Iron Battalion.
